Reading The Shoemaker's Holiday | Alexandria
Read The Shoemaker's Holiday by Thomas Dekker. Blending class warfare with comedy, Dekker's icon overturns assumptions about social mobility in Elizabethan England. A humble shoemaker rises to Lord Mayor through wit and work, challenging rigid hierarchies while revealing that merit trumps birth - a radical notion that still unsettles power structures today. Here, laughter leads to revolution.